Strawberry News

I took a whole bushel of strawberries down to Maricela and Jan yesterday and I said, "okay, they'll be coming in at least a bushel or so a day now--even after u-pick--so we want to start featuring strawberry stuff big time."

"Strawberry shakes?" Jan said.

"Check."

"Strawberry pie?" Maricela asked.

"Check."

"Strawberry smoothies?" Jon Harmon asked.

"Check."

"Strawberry tarts," I continued. "Strawberry jam. Strawberry preserves. Strawberry shortcake. Strawberries dipped in chocolate. Strawberry pancakes. Strawberry Cheesecake. Strawberry Pizza. Strawberry Banana Soup. Strawberry Tiramisu. Strawberry Napoleon. Strawberry Buckle. Something new every day with farm-fresh strawberries."

Everyone seemed very excited. Jon even consumed a strawberry or three between each round of ideas.

"We can do this thing," I said.

Come on up and see if I'm right. I sense berry-related stuff in the public house this week.

More Scenes, Less Screens

We've added new sod to the south side of the Public House (below), and yesterday, we put 3,000 new strawberry plants into the ground. (I actually saw my first little green strawberry yesterday.)

Mallory is working on summer camp marketing, and she (continued below)...

sent me this article about a mom who wanted to send her child on lots of different, challenging summer day camp experiences and found that most of them were little better than TV-dominated day care centers. Some of the places had nothing but sixteen year olds working for them, with no one "..over the age of 21... to prepare more interactive and creative...activities."

Well, judging by that standard, we are the gold-plated, collector's edition Ferrari of summer day camps, because we feature non stop activities by professional living historians who spend the whole year educating kids.

Now--how to get that message out?